Steven Aftergood: CRS on Data, Social Media, and Users (Privacy is Non-Existent and Not Regulated)

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Steven Aftergood

Data, Social Media, and Users: Can We All Get Along?

Data Ownership, Rights, and Usage: Consumers' expectations and reality on who owns data and how data may be used are commonly misaligned.

Data Security and Privacy: Data security is not generally prescribed by law for the information technology sector.

Donald Trump: Amazon’s Free Ride is Over…and Washington Post Must Register as a Lobbyist! PLUS All Past (Negative) PBI Posts on Amazon — A Parade of Predatory Capitalism Pieces

Commerce, Corruption
President Donald Trump

‘This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!': Trump turns up the heat on Jeff Bezos in furious two-pronged Twitter attack against the billionaire's online retail business AND the Washington Post

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Penguin: Microsoft About to Fuck the Entire World — You (and Your Data) Are Hostage to 24/7 Microsoft Monitoring and 24/7 Microsoft Compliance

Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy
Dare To Be Free!

The new services agreement includes two big changes:

01 Microsoft reserves the right to censor your language and can cut off services if they judge you to have violated their speech guidelines.

02 Microsoft reserves  the right to cut off your use of their software and deny you access to all your documents if you use a home version of Microsoft to produce a non-profit or commerical document.

Fuck Microsoft.  Time to bury them.

Full text of Microsoft Services Agreement below the fold.

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Zero Hedge: Collision of Demographic, Automation, and Inequality Signals Societal Catatrophe

03 Economy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

Bain: Collision Of Demographics, Automation, And Inequality Signals Societal Catastrophe

Berto Jongman: a superb overview with graphics.

Robert Steele: they got everything right except the most important (no mention of true cost economics).

#GoogleGestapo WhatsApp Co-Founder, Who Made Billions from Facebook, Says It’s Time to #DeleteFacebook

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

WhatsApp Co-Founder, Who Made Billions from Facebook, Says It's Time to #DeleteFacebook

The social network is now facing crackdowns from regulators in the U.S. and Europe, and an investor lawsuit over that share price slump.

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Mongoose: Cambridge Analytica Dirty Tricks on Film

Commerce, Corruption
Mongoose

Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians

Bribes, sex workers, and social media manipulation

In the meetings, the executives boasted that Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) had worked in more than two hundred elections across the world, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India and Argentina.

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